Needle (1990)

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

Directing:
  • Gillies MacKinnon

Writing:
  • Jimmy McGovern

Stars:
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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  • Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 83

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